Women category: 49097 books
Genderstanding Leadership
Women a Key Force in Bringing Relevance to 21St-Century Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Genderstanding Leadership: Power to the Pew! questions the gender gap between Christian ideology and practice. It challenges women to move beyond the Pew to retrieve and preserve the dignity of women and the security of women and children that are Divinely intended. The book makes a troubling link...
by Rosemarie Skaine
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Even though the people of Afghanistan in general suffered under the rule of the Taliban, women lived especially difficult lives, enduring terrible hardships. They were denied basic human rights, forced to wear veils and kept in seclusion. This work addresses the religion, revolution, and national...
Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage
Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This is a new and engaging examination of the emergence of a Muslim women’s movement in India. The state of Bhopal, a Muslim principality in central India, was ruled by a succession of female rulers throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, most notably the last Begam of Bhopal, Nawab Sultan...
Boudicca's Heirs
Women in Early Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2005
Affording a clearer depiction of women in the Late Iron Age and Roman Britain than currently exists, Dorothy Watts examines archaeological, inscriptional and literary evidence to present a unique assessment of women and their place during the Romanization of Britain.
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Writing Childbirth
Women’s Rhetorical Agency in Labor and Online
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Women seeking to express concerns about childbirth or to challenge institutionalized medicine by writing online birth plans or birth stories exercise rhetorical agency in undeniably feminist ways. In Writing Childbirth: Women’s Rhetorical Agency in Labor and Online, author Kim Hensley Owens explores...
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism
Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slavery. Here, Julie Roy Jeffrey explores the involvement of ordinary women--black and white--in the most significant reform movement prior to...
Toward an Intellectual History of Women
Essays By Linda K. Kerber
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
As a leading historian of women, Linda K. Kerber has played an instrumental role in the radical rethinking of American history over the past two decades. The maturation and increasing complexity of studies in women's history are widely recognized, and in this remarkable collection of essays, Kerber's...
Women in War Films
From Helpless Heroine to G.I. Jane
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
War has been depicted in cinema for more than a century, from early silent films to more recent blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan and Lone Survivor. Most war films, especially combat films, are about men engaged in battle. But while Hollywood has reinforced the cultural stereotype of war as...
Unmanageable Revolutionaries
Women and Irish Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1995
Unmanageable Revolutionaries describes how Irish women (despite their frequent omission from the history books) have always played a key role in the struggle for independence. The author depicts the role women have played in the 'Irish struggle' from 1881 to the present day, partiularly in the crucial...
Reverie and Reality
Poetry on Travel by Late Imperial Chinese Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This is a study of Chinese gentry women’s poems on the theme of travel written during the late imperial period (ca.1600–1911), when Chinese women’s literature and culture flourished as never before. It challenges the clichéd image of completely secluded and immobile women anxiously waiting...
All Women Are Healers
A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
By the study, experimentation and practice of natural healing, women are changing and charting the future of health care. Despite heavy resistance or lack of recognition from patriarchal medicine, they are nevertheless making positive changes that will continue and increase. Womens emphasis on...
Gothic Feminism
The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1998
As British women writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sought to define how they experienced their era's social and economic upheaval, they helped popularize a new style of bourgeois female sensibility. Building on her earlier work in Romantic Androgyny, Diane Long Hoeveler...
Modernist Women Writers and War
Trauma and the Female Body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In Modernist Women Writers and War, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged -- one in which feminist investigation of war and trauma effectively counters the paradigmatic...
A Family of Women
The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state. Through vivid, interwoven life stories, the book offers...